How to Write Your Way into UVA
In college admissions, essays can serve as the tipping point. Here are some tips, pointers and actual essays that recently made the cut.
How to write an admission essay so good that UVA’s deans can’t wait to meet you.
A Good Example of Great
President James E. Ryan (Law '92) shares how he hopes UVA can be an example of excellence paired with purpose.
Scaling Up
A quest to take experiential learning to new heights
A law school climb to Everest base camp could set a new baseline in global learning.
UVA boosts minimum wage to $15 per hour
The raise should better reflect the cost of living.
UVA announces new Batten School dean
Ian H. Solomon brings more than 20 years of experience at the local, national and international levels.
New diversity chief comes from Mizzou
Kevin G. McDonald takes over as UVA’s vice president for diversity, equity and inclusion on Aug. 1.
BOV approves upper-division tuition rate for College, rescinds tuition increase for next year
The executive committee voted in April to maintain current in-state undergraduate tuition, but changes are on the horizon.
A New Corner for UVA
Ambitious plans to remake Emmet/Ivy area start with hotel, conference center
Ambitious plans to remake Emmet/Ivy area start with a hotel and conference center.
A New-School Approach to Data Science
President James E. Ryan (Law '92) shares the vision for the new School of Data Science.
Tuition Changes
Attendance costs shift for UVA and UVA at Wise.
New Operating Chief Starts
UVA’s new chief operating officer, Jennifer “J.J.” Wagner Davis, gets going
Nursing Dean Steps Down
Dean Dorrie Fontaine prepares to retire in July.
Planting the Seed for UVA’s Next School
A Jefferson Trust grant sprouted into the new School of Data Science
News Briefs
200 and Growing
Celebrating the past two centuries. And the next.
Take an overhead look at UVA then and now, and explore the features of the Bicentennial issue.
An Unflinching Report
Slavery Commission chronicles a difficult past
The President's Commission on Slavery and the University releases its final report and recommends further action after 5 years of research.
Ex-President O’Neil Promoted Diversity, Free Speech
Remembering the University's sixth president.
A Hat Tip to UVA
And just what is it about this place
Other schools’ alumni love their alma maters too. But it’s just not the same. Here’s why.
Hero or Villain, Both and Neither
Appraising Thomas Jefferson, 200 years later
A Pulitzer historian assesses what we are to make of UVA’s founder, 200 years hence.
The Class of the Classroom
From the beginning, teaching has been part of UVA’s DNA. Here are some of your favorite professors through the years.
At a University that raises teaching to an art form, we applaud some of the virtuosos.
From the Editor
UVA’s Unfolding Story, in Acrylic on Birch
Editor S. Richard Gard Jr. provides a preview of the magazine’s Winter offerings.
Shaping the Future Together
President James E. Ryan shares his vision for the University, informed by UVA alumni and community members.
Letters to the Editor
Winter 2018
Readers share their thoughts on past issues.
What Lies Ahead for Higher Ed
UVA has distinct advantages as it enters its next century. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.
UVA has clear advantages entering its next century. That doesn’t mean it’s going to be easy.
On Common Grounds
An incomplete list of notable alumni who shared the University
The giants among us: A roundup of alumni who walked from the Lawn to prominence.
